Nelson Picked To Take Place Of J. F. Byrnes
Washington August 29 Senator Ferguson says reliable sources report Donald M. Nelson chosen to succeed James F Byrnes as war mobilization director on Nelsons return from China Roosevelt plan to give demobilization to War Production Board chairman Ferguson notes Byrnes wishes to retire from post soon and turn demobilization to another man Byrnes office has not commented Krug warns of dismissals as WPB discord widens Weinberg resigns as WPB vice chairman after criticism of internal tensions Turn to Page 8 Column 3
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WASHINGTON
Ferguson
Mich
Donald M. Nelson
James F. Brynes
war mobilizaton
Nelson
China
Roosevelt
war production board
Byrnes
supreme court
Germany
Tve
Chungking
Julius A. Krug
WPB
Krug
senate war investigating committee
Sidney J. Weinberg
WPS
Weinberg
Charles E. Wilson
German Transport Service Blasted
American and British fighter bombers swept German strongpoints and transport targets across France and the low countries into Germany as part of a three day air offensive. Ninth U.S. air force fighter bombers destroyed 726 enemy motor vehicles 258 railroad cars 23 tanks 53 ammunition carriers and 21 locomotives.
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LONDON
France
low countries
Germany
west front
U. S
Raccoon aids capture of German WWII prisoner
In Greeley Colorado a pet raccoon named Butch helped lead officers to a German POW who fled a nearby camp. Fifteen-year-old Robert Brown released the animal and later alerted police after finding the man in a corn patch. Officers tracked the suspect through corn stalks and recovered Gerhard Vatter, 19, returning him to the camp.
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GREELEY
Colo
Robert Brown
Butch
Robert
J. M. Brown
Gerhard Vatter
House Seeks Slush Funds in Campaign Drive
The House campaign expenses committee began a drive to uncover slush funds and identify contributors to November campaigns. It quizzed CIO PAC head Sidney Hillman who defended the group as nonpartisan and opposed to communism while backing a Roosevelt Truman ticket and possibly a progressive Congress. Brown accused Hillman of Hatch Act violations for a large union contribution to the PAC and urged scrutiny of fund-fostering activities.
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WASHINGTON
house campaign expenses committee
Sidney Hillman
CIO
political action committee
PAC
Church
R-ND
Hillman
Roosevelt-Truman
progressive congress
Democratic national committee
Thomas FE. Dewey
New York
Rep Brown
Ohio
J. J. Abt
amalgamated clothing workers union
Brown
Allies Advance On Gothic Line Near Fortified Positions
Allied 8th army elements push along the eastern Italian front nearing the Gothic Line. Polish forces take Fang on the coast while others cross the Arno river sector. Reports say German withdrawals pause as defenders dig in, with Clark noting 47,000 Nazi prisoners captured to date.
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ROME
Fang
Arazula
United Nations radio
Algiers
Mark Clark
Sth
Churchill Returns From Italy By Air
Prime Minister Churchill flew back to London by air late today after a visit to Italy as World War II coverage continues.
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CHURCHILL
LONDON
Italy
Seventh Army Advances in Southern France Fronts Move Toward Spanish Border
French Seventh Army drives west of the Rhone reaching Uzes and Nimes to form a southern buffer. Allied forces press Germans north of Montelimar as Marseille Toulon coast surrender clears ports for operations. American, French and British ships bombard St. Mandrier peninsula. raids help immobilize enemy coastal batteries.
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ROME
Rhone
France
Uzes
Nimes
Avignon
Montelimar
Frederic Butler
Cagnes
Cannes
Vence
Nice
Marseille
Marsele
Toulon
Alles
St. Mandrier
Toulot
Gotthold Schaefer
Lorraine
Ramallies
Gulf of Genoa
Powers in agreement on world peace agency
Washington Aug 29 The Dumbarton Oaks conferees announced general agreement on the form of an international security organization. It would include an assembly of all peace loving nations and a council of principal states with others elected periodically. An international court of justice would adjudicate disputes and other peace measures would be applied. Discussions continue on structure jurisdiction and procedures as governments prepare final recommendations. Undersecretary Edward Stettinius said details remain under discussion.
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WASHINGTON
Dumbarton Oaks
international organization for peace and security
international court of justice
Edward Stettinius
Biddle Assails Nazi Monopolies
Attorney General Biddle urged Allied powers to break German monopolistic firms to prevent future world conflict. Testifying to a Senate military subcommittee on cartel arrangements, he said the goal was not to destroy German economics but to reduce industrial power that could menace civilization.
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WASHINGTON
Biddle
senate
Biddie
Brakeman Killed In Union Pacific Yard Crash
In Pocatello Idaho a Union Pacific engine crashed into a caboose in the yards killing brakeman M L Aland of Pocatello and injuring four other trainmen two seriously one seriously and one with minor injuries in the accident today August 29 at the yards
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POCATELLO
Idaho
M. L. Aland
Union Pacific
Farmer cuts neighbor's hay but gets no share of crop
Newton North Carolina August 29. A farmer agreed to cut a neighbor's hay field for a share of the crop. Two days later he returned to rake and bale the hay but found he had cut the wrong field. A man thanked him for cutting the hay, revealing the mix up. The farmer received no share of the crop.
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NEWTON
N. C
Nazis Withdraw Bulgaria Troops
Reports from London and Istanbul indicate German forces are beginning to pull back from Bulgaria. The Moscow radio, citing the Bulgarian news agency, says the withdrawal should finish within a few days as disarming of German troops along the Bulgaria Romania frontier continues.
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LONDON
Bulgaria
Istanbul
Sofia
Moscow
Bulgaria-Romania
De Gaulle Plans To Form Cabinet In Paris
Gen Charles De Gaulle plans a new Paris cabinet soon retaining several members of the French committee of national liberation and adding resistance leaders. Most committee members are expected to reach Paris shortly as the assembly will nearly double in size with resistance and party reps.
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ALGIERS
Charles De Gaulle
Paris
committee of national liberation
resistance
France
Tokyo Reports Landing Attempt Near Bougainville
London reports a Tokyo dispatch claiming American troops were repulsed in a landing near Cape Torokina on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. The account says U S forces landed August 10 east of Torokina on the Jaba river left bank, faced a nine day Japanese counterattack, and that the beachhead was cleared August 20 after heavy fighting.
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LONDON
Beslin
Tokyo
Cape Torokina
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
equatorial
Torokina
Jaba river
Senator Norris in McCook Nebraska Health Update
George W. Norris an 83 year old former independent U S senator from Nebraska suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and is unconscious but resting easily according to his physician. He had remarked his health was as good as expected on his birthday and recently accepted honorary chairmanship of a national political action committee announcing his intent to do as much as he can.
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McCOOK
Neb
George W. Norris
United States
Nebraska
Norris
national political action committee
Russians push toward Ploesti and Bucharest in Danube drive
Soviet forces driving through Romania neared the oil centers of Ploesti and Bucharest, while a Danube crossing expanded a northern flank toward Constanta. German and Hungarian troops retreat under heavy pressure as Malinovsky’s Ukraine army pushes through Transylvania. A new bridgehead forms near Warsaw at Warka as Polish forces brace for German defense.
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MOSCOW
Romania
Ploesti
Bucharest
Danube
Transylvania
Hitler
Hungary
Carpathians
Red
Bretscu
black sea
Ploessi
cty
greins
Romana
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
second Ukraine
Otaz
Polana-Sarata
BRINGEHEAD
Vistula river
Warsaw
Warka
Daniel De Luce
Associated Press
Lublin
Poland
De Luce
Mihail Rola-Zymierski
Rola-Zymierski
Falaise Trap Costs Nazis Heavy Losses
Allied forces killed or captured 122000 Germans in the Falaise entrapment, with total toll rising to 322000 including 30000 killed and 92000 captured through Aug 25 and ongoing mop up south and west of Rouen. German rearguards fought desper ately as Allied troops pressed toward the Seine and Rouen.
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JOHN F. CHESTER
SEINE
Falaise
2nd army
willrow
Seme
Rouen
Louviers
Vernon
Joan of Arc
Celebes Is Target Of Yankee Bombers
General Headquarters reports American bombers struck Celebes to disrupt Japan's southern sea routes. Eleven Japanese vessels were destroyed or damaged, including four freighters and three small craft at Manado in northern Celebes. The August toll lists 101 ships sunk or probably sunk and 46 damaged across the Southwest Pacific.
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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
Celebes
Japan
Manado
North
central Pacific
Omekotan
Kuriles
Nauru
Marshalls
Booby Trap In Poet's Grave Reported by Soviet Team
MOSCOW August 29 The state investigating committee of German atrocities headed by Leningrad journalist Nikolai Takjanov reported Nazis placed a booby trap in the grave of beloved Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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MOSCOW
Leningrad
Nikolai Takjanov
Alexander Pushkin
Japs Hear Appeal For More Planes
New York August 28 The Tokyo radio urged higher aircraft production warning the war nears the homeland The OWI noted the appeal stressed steel defense depends on planes and Koiso government planned to seek more planes munitions and food at a special Imperial Diet session next week
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NEW YORK
Tokyo
office of war information
OWI
Japan
federal communications commission
Kuniaki Koiso
Imperial Diet
Junior and Young Sister Face Cold Winter This Year
New York reports a tight infant supply as families brace for winter. Junior may lack underwear and his sister may wear last year’s cotton dresses, while baby brother faces only a dozen diapers, reflecting strained consumer inventories.
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NEW YORK
American Army Drives Closer To Nazi Border
Allied forces pushed toward Belgium and the German frontier after capturing Chateau-Thierry and Soissons, advancing on French soil with gains that placed them within about 73 miles of Belgium and near the German line. The rapid drive followed a northern route used in 1918, as troops pressed through Pas de Calais territory and faced new German threats amid the war’s latest offensives.
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
Allied Expeditionary Force
Chateau-Thierry
Soissons
Belgium
Marne
Pas de Calais
Road distances to major fronts from key locations
Map style distances show the Russian front at 322 miles from eastern War saw suburbs, Northern France 470 miles from a point near Suissons, Southern France 545 miles from Perly, and 600 miles from northern outskirts of Florence.
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BERLIN
Warsaw
France
Suissons
Perly
Florence
Drive to Paris area by Patton's Army Sparks Advance
American and British beachheads along the Seine merge as 3rd Army under Lt Gen George Patton drives toward Chalons Vitry and Reims. Canadian forces see Rouen, while Americans reach 63 miles from Sedan. Verdun and past battles echo in the rapid advance amid a solid front east of Paris.
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7th army
Normandy
15th army
Pas de Calais
Soissons
Paris
Fismes
upper Marne
Chalons
Vitry
Verdun
Marshal Petain
Seine
Mantes
Vernon
Rouen
Joan of Arc
Chatan-Thierry
Cathedral of
Reims
France
George
Patton
3rd army
Sedan
Ardennes
Aisne-Somme
Hull and Dulles Say Peace Organization Must Stay Nonpartisan
Secretary of State Hull announced he and John Foster Dulles have agreed that creating an international peace and security body should be kept out of politics. The statement follows three meetings with Dewey’s representative and reiterates the subject as nonpartisan, while Dulles reserves full public discussion of peaceful means.
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WASHINGTON
Hull
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Thomas Dewey
Dewey
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German Transport Service
RACCOON
Seventh Army
Notre Dame
Charles DeGaulle
signal corps
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De Gaulle
Reds
Great Oil Center
Hull and
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